Photography enthusiast the late Robert “Bob” Potts of Albany took photos and collected them mostly of his home town and now 7,000 of his prints have been numbered, sorted and scanned and posted on the Albany Regional Museum’s website.

It was April of 1964 when the Red Crown flouring mill on the Willamette River in Albany burned, but that doesn’t mean people can’t see what the mill looked like but only a smaller version.

That’s because in the mid-2000s, then 17-year-old Boy Scout Don Gillham of Jefferson along with friends and other Scouts, built a 44- by 50-inch by 30-inch tall replica of the mill, which is on display at the Albany Regional Museum.

This year, the Albany Municipal Airport marks its 99th year, making it the oldest continuously operating airfield in the state.

Along with that designation, in June 1998, the National Park Service in Washington, D.C., notified the city that the airport east of Albany had been selected for the National Register of Historic Places….

If you want to know more about why a house at Fifth and Walnut streets in Albany was built in an octagonal shape then visit the Albany Regional Museum, where the history of that house along with nine other Victorian-era residences are on display in a new exhibit.

The story of the houses, photographs of the homes and a photo of the homeowners (always a man) are in frames in the museum’s community room.

There’s a mini bookstore in Albany that many probably know nothing about.

It’s located in the lobby of the Albany Regional Museum and includes historical fiction and non-fiction accounts of Oregon and the immediate area.

Anyone who makes a purchase and mentions the city of Albany’s newsletter “City Bridges” will get a 10 percent discount, said museum director Keith Lohse. By offering the price break, the museum wants to recognize the good working relationship it has with the city.

The historical column that appears on the museum’s website also can be found in each edition of City Bridges.